[Wolf reintroduction?]

Living on Dartmoor, I think it would be a great idea. 360sq miles with a pop . of about 30,000, so plenty of space, forests, and food. Foxes kill lambs, buzzards kill lambs and pick their eyes out. They aren't shot indiscrimanetly. Why should wolves be any different? Besides, most of the domesticated livestock on the high moor is cattle, not sheep.

Besides that the average farmer doesn't have the time to go searching for wolves (or foxes for that matter) ... leaving the hunts (which are supposedly banned) something tells me a dog would lose that battle.

[A growing groundswell of opinion?]

My point was that government scientists grap the bone and run with it until something else comes along. The media, with nothing else to do tends to follow suit. Thankfully, most people are beginning to grasp that you can't believe everything someone else tells you, and that its best to find out things for yourself. Ergo, most people I talk to seem to be slightly wary re global warming and what exactly it is going to do... and lets be honest - no one does.

If they can't get the weather right for the next few hours, one thinks they might struggle for the next few hundred years! Thats just my opinion. I'll recycle, i'll switch off lights, but im still going to drive to work, im still going to go on holiday in warm places (which according to some people I won't have to soon) and im still going to believe that this is just one of those things. Lets face it, the earth has been here for billions of years, pumping noxious gasses into the atmosphere at a huge rate, far worse than we could even contemplate, yet it had ice ages, little ice ages, warm periods, hot periods, some might say the world knows what its up to. It has afterall coped before.

If however it doesn't, there are some great quick fixes being banded around, someone just needs to bite the goddamn bullet instead of 'well, we could do this, or we might do that'

So in essence... oil problem - leave to industry, cooling leave to nature or, if a helping hand is needed, human intervention. I believe a few hundred million tonnes of sulphur at about 40km a.s.l would do the trick. Prof Crutzen certainly thinks so.

[A growing groundswell of opinion?]

Im not convinced that economies will grind to a halt tbh. When the oil price becomes too high companies will invest in new technologies, this will form a new 'eco industry' that will replace jobs lost as a result of no one buying oil. It started to happen in the 1980's when oil supplies slowed up, but the govt got involved, the price dropped, companies figured it was cheaper to buy the oil again than invest in new technologies. So they didn't. Simple economics demands that governements do what they do best. Nothing. Let business and the economies take their course, take no prisoners. If things get tough, they get tough. But they'll get better.

You can depict us in the 21st C with those back in history, but we have the knowledge now to cope, to adapt, to live on. Government intervention doesn't foster ideas, its restricts them.

On the original topic re disbelief. Is it any wonder? In the 70's we were all doomed to a global cool down (temp wise) then we were all going to get mad cow disease, then we were all going to get sars, now maybe bird flu? If none of those get us, then 30C and fine wine growing in Scotland might? Shucks.

[Your Predictions : Lowest UK temperature during this Winter]

-24.3C over Scotland with -15C over Dartmoor, and record 1929 esque snowfalls (180cm) :lol: